Chapter 1083: Ford's Reaction
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After this news came out, it caused a huge sensation in the entire automobile market.
GM is an American auto giant, and Tesla is an emerging new energy giant. The cooperation between these two car companies will have a great impact.
The most immediate effect is that GM's stock has risen. This is extremely exciting for shareholders, considering that GM's stock has been falling for a long, long time.
For shareholders, they have long been desperate. But now there is a special plane, and the news has caused GM's stock to rise by four percent.
It can be seen that shareholders attach great importance to Tesla. This change spurred other automotive groups at once.
Seeing this reaction, GM has placed more emphasis on cooperation.
Ford Group, as one of the three giants of the United States. Ford's life is also difficult, even more difficult than GM's.
The life of its brand is not good, and the global market share of the Ford brand has declined significantly.
The high-end brand Lincoln is even more tragic, and its sales in the United States are pitiful. GM also has a Cadillac. Although Cadillac is not as good as the top three in Germany, its sales are okay.
But Ford's Lincoln became a tragedy. Sales were extremely pitiful, so this also made Ford unhappy.
Now Ford's focus has shifted to other industries. However, as an automotive group, the main business is still the automotive business.
The cooperation between GM and Tesla has made Ford pay attention to it. Ford has been in contact with Tesla, but it is not going well.
Tesla is not something that everyone wants to work with. Almost all car brands have applied to Tesla for cooperation.
Including the powerful German and Japanese, but they were all rejected by Tesla. Tesla has a timely lead in the field of new energy vehicles.
And relying on the huge market in China, it has quickly completed the industrial layout. The huge sales volume has promoted Tesla's technology to be updated and replaced more quickly.
Especially after the emergence of all-solid-state batteries, Tesla directly determined its position as the king in the field of new energy vehicles.
Now the world's major car manufacturers are actually very depressed. Now these brands have also launched some new energy vehicles, but all of them are lithium battery vehicles.
And all the lithium batteries they purchased were purchased from Huaxia. As for the all-solid-state batteries, they don't hear from them at all.
But Tesla's cars already use all-solid-state batteries. The advantages of all-solid-state batteries are clear to everyone.
Lithium battery electric vehicles, with a range of 5,600 kilometers, are considered awesome. However, an all-solid-state battery can easily exceed a 1,000-kilometer range.
A clearly visible technological gap that cannot be bridged by investing in R&D in a short period of time. This technological gap made them feel a deep sense of powerlessness.
They can also guess how much Tesla's purpose is. The reason why all-solid-state batteries are not popular is because Tesla's current lithium battery models are enough to beat all brands.
The powerful electronic control technology allows Tesla's lithium battery models to have a range of up to 700 kilometers. Looking at the models of other companies, most of them have a range of less than five hundred.
Only a few models can exceed 500 in range, but not 600. As for 700 kilometers, it is still a huge technical problem for major car companies around the world.
Not to mention the comparison with models with all-solid-state batteries. All solid-state models, some of which have a range of 1,500 kilometers.
In the era of electric vehicles, the length of the range represents the strength of the technology. Everyone has a range phobia when it comes to BEVs.
In addition to battery electronic control technology, Tesla is also leading the way in fast charging technology. According to their understanding, the new generation of fast charging technology currently being developed by Tesla has made a technological breakthrough.
This technology can more than triple the current charging technology. This technology will reduce the charging speed of electric vehicles with a range of 500 kilometers from the current hour to 20 minutes.
These technologies have made the auto giants feel hopeless. They also want to overtake in corners, but unfortunately Tesla's investment in technology research and development is much more terrible than theirs.
Zhang Fan is a master who is not short of money. Not only the research and development of all-solid-state batteries, but also graphene batteries, high-voltage flash charging technology and so on.
And they are already at the forefront of these research and development. It is very difficult for other groups to compete with Tesla.
What makes those car companies most depressed is that their new energy R&D team is even more pitiful by Tesla.
The headhunters of Longteng Group, as early as the beginning of Tesla's establishment, have been frantically poaching around the world.
The treatment given is very high, and various methods are used. Ask for money for money, ask for beautiful women for beautiful women, and ask for handsome guys for handsome guys.
For those who really can't dig up, Longteng Group has tried its best to destroy these people. All kinds of ways to play the dead, and the headhunters of Longteng Group had a lot of fun.
Anyway, Longteng Group has more special funds in this regard. This kind of play has led to the fact that in the field of new energy, other companies cannot be compared with Longteng Group at all, and even caused a big generation gap in the middle.
"Guys, according to the latest information. GM was able to reach a partnership with Tesla. This is because GM is ready to sell the Hummer brand to the Longteng Group for one dollar. ”
Ford's conference room, a young man said seriously.
"Does this news do anything to us? Can we stop GM?"
One shareholder couldn't help but ask.
"No, GM takes this collaboration very seriously. We can't stop it, but we can see something from it. Let's look at Tesla, which acquired Hongqi in Huaxia, Maserati at the same time, and now Hummer, it is clear that Tesla seems to have a great preference for brand acquisitions. We have one more piece of information here......"
The young man said with a smile, and then pulled out another piece of data.
"In the past two years, Tesla's acquisition team has submitted acquisition applications for many brands. ”
A piece of information was taken out, and everyone was stunned when they saw this information. Tesla has applied for the acquisition of so many brands.
There are a lot of brands, and these brands are some of the brands that everyone is familiar with.
"And now we have something in our hands that maybe Tesla will be very interested in. ”
Then the young man's words made everyone interested, and Ford had several brands in his hands. Some brands are losing money now, and if Tesla is really interested, then it doesn't matter if they sell to Tesla.